National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for November 23, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending November 20, 2016
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Night School
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28.99, 9780804178808
Night School moves through a treacherous landscape of double crosses, faked identities, and new and terrible enemies as Jack Reacher maneuvers inside the game and outside the law. A November 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 1/2
2. The Whistler
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385541190
Grisham's electrifying new novel is a high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State.		 2/4
3. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542364
Whitehead's magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/16
4. Swing Time- Debut
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $27.00, 9781594203985
The exuberant new novel by the bestselling author of White Teeth is a December 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
5. Commonwealth
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062491794
Patchett's beautifully written new novel tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for September 2016.		 3/10
6. No Man's Land- Debut
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $29.00, 9781455586516
Special Agent John Puller, combat veteran and the Army's most tenacious investigator, is back in Baldacci's new thriller.		 /1
7. Small Great Things
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $28.99, 9780345544957
A woman is caught in a gripping moral dilemma that resonates far beyond her place in time and history. An October 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/6
8. The Wrong Side of Goodbye
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $29.00, 9780316225946
Detective Harry Bosch must track down someone who may never have existed in Connelly's riveting new thriller.		 4/3
9. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Viking, $27.00, 9780670026197
Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/11
10. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27.00, 9781476746586
Doerr's beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II is a May 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/131
11. Today Will Be Different
Maria Semple, Little Brown, $27.00, 9780316403436
The hilarious and heart-filled new novel by the bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette is an October 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/7
12. News of the World- Debut
Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $22.99, 9780062409201
A brilliant work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. An October 2016 Indie Next List Great Read, and National Book Award Finalist.		 /1
13. Two by Two
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $27.00, 9781455520695
An emotionally powerful novel about unconditional love, its challenges, its risks, and, most of all, its rewards.		 12/7
14. The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26.00, 9781501132933
The suspenseful and haunting new novel by the bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood is an August 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/18
15. The Trespasser
Tana French, Viking, $27.00, 9780670026333
French's gripping new Murder Squad mystery is an October 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/7
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18. Turbo Twenty-Three
Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $28.00, 9780345543004
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the case once again in the latest humorous mystery by the bestselling author of Tricky Twenty-Two.		  

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